Wolfsburg öncesi

Bu aksam oldugunda,
Inönü doldugunda,
Kartal'im Wolfsburg'a koydugunda,
8-0 gelecek aklima,
Iyi ki oradaydim diyecegim kendi kendime,
Ve yeniden asik olacagim siyaha beyaza.

Same Story, 3 Songs, 3 Charachters

The Boy and The Girl fall in love. The Girl leaves the boy. The Boy is angry, and dreams of the Tirl suffering to ease his pain. An archetypal love story, which found its way into the repertoire of many singer/song-writers. Three of my favorites' approach to the story shows a lot about their character.

First, the Boss. Bruce Springsteen's 1980 album River contains one of his best songs Point Blank. The hero sees his old lover on the streets and she doesn't say hi. The boss writes her a song how she is becoming just another lost soul of the society. He is sad for her, and sings her one the best lines in pop music history describing the sad nature of human condition:

"Do you still say your prayers little darlin' do you go to bed at night
Prayin' that tomorrow, everything will be alright
But tomorrow's fall in number in number one by one
You wake up and you're dying you don't even know what from"

Lou Reed on the other side is certain that Sally is megalomaniac, who thinks the whole world is there for her. He makes fun of her, praises her heart being made of ice:

"Ooohhh, isn’t it nice
When your heart is made out of ice"

Dylan is Dylan. He is angry at the girl, and tells her the naked truth how miserable her future will be. The only thing we know for sure about the girl was there was no girl, and Dylan was singing to himself:

"People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal."

Kimi hatirlayacaksiniz?

Denizli'nin tavsanlarindan muaf, takimin yavas yavas eski kondisyonuna kavustugu, Ernst-Fink, Sivok-Ferrari, Bobo-Nihat ikililerinin ideal ikililer oldugunun yeniden göz önüne ciktigi, Berlin-Carsi'nin yine kendine hayran biraktigi, Almanya'nin sogununun Ekim ayinda kic dondurdugu, Hakem'in bir penaltimizi yedigi, Rüstü'nün isinin futbolumuzla yasatamadigimiz heyecani tehlike yaratarak yasatmak oldugu, Ferrari'nin Obama'nin 2 saniye'de 2 kere adamin ayagina yatan versiyonu oldugunun görüldügü -bkz. üstteki resim- , alinan bir puan, ManU'nin attigi 1 gol ile iyiden iyiye son maclara kadar heyecan yasayanacaginin belli oldugu, senelerden sonra Babam'la evden seyrettigim güzel degil ama sempatik bir mac oldu.

Baba-Ogul Besiktas'liligimiz benim dogum öncesine dayandigi icin eski futbolcular'dan dem vuruldu. Bu sabah su soru aklima takildi bundan 5 sene sonra geriye bakip hangi futbolcuyu konusacagiz?

Besiktaslinin aklinda yer eden yabanci futbolcular her zaman taraftara yüregini sahaya koydugunu gösterebilen topcular olmustur. Amokachi, Pascal, Ferdinand.



Kel sacina vurdugu ustura ile bana yine tribunlerin baska bir sevgilisi Baki'yi hatirlatsa da, futbol olarak cok ileride olan bu Kartal Yürek bence Beyaz Nouma olma yolunda ilerliyor. Varligi ile Ernst'e ileri cikma sansi veren Fink'in Almanya'nin bickin delikanlilarina benzerligi inanilmaz.



Besiktas'in sevilen -Metin-Ali-Feyyaz-Sergen'i ayri tutuyorum- Türk futbolculari ise her zaman sinirli yeteneklerini calisarak kapatanlar olmustur. Ibrahim Üzülmez yasina basina aldirmadan hala sol kanata dinamizm katiyorsa bu yolda ilerliyor demektir.

Fotograflar Ntvmsnbc.com'dan alintidir.

I guess we are a good couple...

Pollyanna

Maybe the God will be with us tonite. Maybe the we reached the bottom of the abyss we've been falling down. Maybe we will win, or draw in Wolfsburg tonite.

Cause there is always hope for a better tomorrow. I know you cannot live on hope alone. But, without it, life is not worth living.

In search of truth...

2 times 2 is four. Or isn't it?

The nature of truth has eluded humanity for thousands of years. Before any set of thoughts can be considered as philosophy, it has to clearly define its epistemology - its version of the knowledge science.

From different approaches to epistemology, mathematical ones have stood out as the ones that are most close to an ultimate epistemology. Yet in science and philosophy, even the most trivial facts has to be rigorously proven. And using mathematics as the ultimate epistemology has proved to be one of the most challenging undertakings in the intellectual history of humanity, which lead to many bright minds to go insane.

Logiocomix, hailing from the birth place of Philosophy, is a very interesting comic book that chronicles this intellectual journey with the main protagonist being Bertrand Russell, and characters such as Wittgenstein -portrayed above during an attack of existentialist rage- Gödel, Carnot, Poincare and Von Neumann.

I've ordered the book on Amazon, but it looks like Amazon's having problems getting its hands on the book. No wonder, considering the greatness of the story and it's telling.

Fani Madida

Su Beko reklamli formali Besiktas'imi oyle ozluyorum ki. Seba'yi, söförü arka masada bas garson ile otururken, tek basina keyifle raki icerken görürdüm Ankara Atli Spor Klübünde.

Bir de sirtina Baskan'in cebinden Demirören reklami vermeyip Kizilay reklami aldigi sacma sapan formalarimiz, ve Denizli spor maci sonrasi 50 korumanin esliginde staddan cikan diktator kilikli Demirören geliyor aklima. Cildiriyorum.

Neyse ki eski günlerden bir dost geliyor yanibasimiza. Fani Madida Sivasspor'a yardimci antrenör olmus, hosgelmis.

Maca gittim tribun dolmus,
Kartal Fener'e koymus,
Onbesinci dakikada nasil koydu Madida,
Ulan ibne Kanarya!

The Pale Blue Dot

Somewhere in this picture, there is a pale blue dot. It is your home. It is the home of every living thing that we know and we don't know of. This is a picture taken by the Voyager in 1990 of our planet from 6 billion kilometers away.

It is the most humbling picture I have ever seen. It has been said that science does not provide moral values but religion does. I beg to differ. Even though science by itself, which is merely a method, cannot provide a moral framework, the fruits of knowledge it gives us let us define our morals. This picture is a great example. Carl Sagan, touched by this picture wrote a book on this. Here is an excerpt from the introduction, which everyone should listen from time to time to wash away his or hers false ideas of grandeur:



"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."

"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Goodbye to Herminator

Hemann Maier, the Austrian alpine skiing legend, has announced his retirement from the professional skiing. He will be remembered for his:

Incredible crash in Nagano Olympics, 3 days after which he won gold medals:



His nearly error free style, which is so delightful to watch on hard slopes such as the legendary Streife:



And his amazing recovery from his motorcycle accident, after which doctors almost amputated his lower leg.